One in every of London’s most essential up to date artwork areas, Gasworks in Vauxhall, is getting a brand new director. Robert Leckie, the present director of Spike Island arts centre in Bristol, will take up the place in March subsequent yr, changing Alessio Antoniolli. Antoniolli has led the non-profit gallery and influential artist residency house for 18 years.
The transfer is a return to base for Leckie; previous to becoming a member of Spike Island in 2018, he was curator and head of programmes at Gasworks from 2011 to 2018 the place he organised exhibitions devoted to artists similar to Monira Al Qadiri and Candice Lin.
Leckie can also be a visiting lecturer on the Royal School of Artwork, Goldsmiths school (London College), and the College of the Arts in London, and was a jury member for the 2022 Turner Prize.
In 2015, on Gasworks, we reported that “for greater than twenty years this small Victorian warehouse behind The Oval cricket floor has offered studio house, worldwide residencies and important early exhibitions to a large number of artists from the UK and worldwide”. There are 13 artists’ studios housed within the constructing which was redeveloped in 2015.
Prior to now 30 years the organisation has hosted over 400 artists from 70 nations with Chris Ofili, Yinka Shonibare, Music Dong and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye amongst its alumni. Trevor Yeung, Hong Kong’s consultant on the 2024 Venice Biennale, has an exhibition on the house, operating till 17 December. Subsequent yr, Gasworks celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
Antoniolli has in the meantime been appointed director of Triangle Community, a worldwide circuit of artists and visible arts organisations selling cultural change in additional than 40 nations, encompassing venues in Iran, Brazil and Pakistan. Gasworks can also be a part of the community.
